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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...

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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
Inferiority
Lifelong
Habit
Full
Self

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
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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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