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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
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 only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
William James
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
William James
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
William James
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
William James
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
William James
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
William James
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
William James
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
William James
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
William James
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
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