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William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
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Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
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Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
William James
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William James
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
William James
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
William James
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
William James
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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