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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

William James

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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
Experiences
Personal
Upon
Times
Earth
Reincarnation

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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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The perfection of rottenness.
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If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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