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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

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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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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First... a new theory is attacked as absurd then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
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