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William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
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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.
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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
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.
William James
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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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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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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