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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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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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It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
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To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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