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

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Psychologist
University Teacher
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Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
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We are mere bundles of habits.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
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A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.
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In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
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The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.
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