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

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Action

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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 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 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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• If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

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  Appreciation, Winning, People

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• The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Doctors

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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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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• Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Tree

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

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  Evil, Worry, Add

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

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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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• If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

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  Perseverance, Passing Away, Unusual

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Stubborn

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

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  Philosophy, Law, Medicine

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

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  Political, Branches, Reason

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• Individuality is founded in feeling

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  Inspirational, Feelings, Individuality

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

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