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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
Every
Claim
Creates
Obligation
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Lets take full advantage of this discovery
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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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a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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