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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
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Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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What holds attention determines action.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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