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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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Every claim creates an obligation.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
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The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
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Man lives for science as well as bread.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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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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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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No decision is, in itself, a decision.
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... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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