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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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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
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Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
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There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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.
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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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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
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Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
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