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• Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

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  Men, Kind, Beast

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Sublime

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.

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  People, Important, Importance

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• The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

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  Religious, Love Life, Development

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.507, Courier Corporation

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• The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

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  Attention, Unchanging, Made

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.68, Harvard University Press

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

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  Differences, Degrees, Different

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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  Life, Inspiration, Purpose

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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• The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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  Truth, Lying, Philosophical

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Our beliefs are really rules for action.

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  Belief, Action

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.134, University of Illinois Press

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• I will act as if I do make a difference.

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Action

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

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  Life, Power, Perfect

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• You can't out-perform your self-image.

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  Self

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• Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

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  Creating, Suffering, Built

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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  Order, Grace, Unseen

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• A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

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  Usual, Inward, Paradise

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.261, Library of America

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• Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

  William James

  Evil, Worry, Add

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

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  Fate, Evil, Spinning

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Book

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

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  Life, Success, Strong

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• The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

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  Insanity, Vision, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

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  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Stubborn

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• Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

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  Science, Authority, Accounts

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

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