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Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

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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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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
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Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.
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Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
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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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What holds attention determines action.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.
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We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
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The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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