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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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