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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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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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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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