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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself to prompt new questions in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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