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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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If it works, it's true.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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Evil is a disease and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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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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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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