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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 errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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Act the part and you will become the part.
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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.
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Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James