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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  William James

  Life, Faith, Optimism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

  William James

  Attention, Facts, Belief

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

  William James

  Educational, Philosophy, Science

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.57, Nuvision Pubns

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• Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

  William James

  Work, Holiday, Men

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

  William James

  Religious, Twilight, Mountain

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

  William James

  Fashion, Doors, Personality

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• As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

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  Views, Bird, Different

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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  Religious, Facts, Temper

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.5, 谷月社

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• History is a bath of blood.

  William James

  Blood, History, Baths

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

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• I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

  William James

  Life, Success, Attitude

  Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

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• An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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  Philosophical, Quality, Ethics

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin

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• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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  Passion, Math, Unions

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press

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• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

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  Reality, Static, Latter

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• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

  William James

  Art, Law, Culture Religion

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• How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

  William James

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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  Fear, Civilization, Class

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  William James

  God, Vision, Essentials

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

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  Believe, Science, Deception

  William James (1986). “Essays in Psychical Research”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

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  Character, Mean, Successful

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.410, Courier Corporation

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• Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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  Truth, Mean, Reality

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Routledge

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• Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

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  Principles, Appreciated, Human Nature

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• There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

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  Consciousness, Certain, Phenomenon

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.260, Penguin

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• The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Action

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• All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

  William James

  Philosophic, Ideals, Altars

  The Dilemma of Determinism" (1884)

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• Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

  William James

  Destiny, Higher, Critical

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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