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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Psychologist
University Teacher
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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