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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.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
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