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... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

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
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings fame is a breath love is a cheat youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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Evil is a disease and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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The war-function has grasped us so far but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
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