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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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There is a voice inside which speaks and says, This is the real me!
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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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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
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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 your friends who make your world.
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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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