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• Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

  William James

  Philosophical, Matter, Cases

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.99, University of Illinois Press

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• Individuality is founded in feeling

  William James

  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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• Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

  William James

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

  William James

  Form, Great Things, Fears Of Life

  William James (1925). “The Philosophy of William James: Drawn from His Own Works”

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• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

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• Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

  William James

  Spiritual, Energy, World

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience".

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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.

  William James

  Heart, Errors, World

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

  William James

  Splits, May, Consciousness

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

  William James

  Faith, Believe, Philosophical

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Fear, Brave, Cheerful

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

  William James

  Oneness, Differences, Achievement

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.378, Library of America

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• All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

  William James

  Habit, Form, Mass

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.56, Nuvision Pubns

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• Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

  William James

  Lonely, Agony, Individual

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

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• Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Energy, Half, Limits

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• The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

  William James

  War, Party, Holiday

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

  William James

  Uprising, Agents, Wheels

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

  William James

  Islands, Sea, Roots

  "Confidences of a 'Psychical Researcher'". The American Magazine, Vol. 68, 1909.

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• Time itself comes in drops.

  William James

  Philosophical

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

  William James

  Happiness, Cheerful, Path

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Past

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.123, Nuvision Pubns

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• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

  William James

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

  William James

  Life, Success, Real

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  William James

  Feel Good, Alcohol, Feelings

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lecture 1, p. 16

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• Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

  William James

  Truth, Ideas, Events

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)

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