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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.
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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
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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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Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
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The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
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We can act as if there were a God feel as if we were free consider Nature as if she were full of special designs lay plans as if we were to be immortal and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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