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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
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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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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
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To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
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The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
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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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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself to prompt new questions in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
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Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
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You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: There is very little difference between one man and another but what little there is, is very important. This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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