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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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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.
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It is your friends who make your world.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James