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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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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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Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.
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There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
William James