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• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

  William James

  Truth, Guides, Sensible

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

  William James

  Truth, Reality, Ideas

  William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

  William James

  Love, Life, Gratitude

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

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  Mean, Men, Absence

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• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  William James

  Ideas, Relation, Being True

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

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  Reality, Frustration, Ideas

  William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

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• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  William James

  Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

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• A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

  William James

  Philosophy, Men, Social

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.61, Routledge

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• That which is most personal, is most interesting.

  William James

  Interesting, Most Interesting

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• The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

  William James

  Adolescence, Humans, Remains

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

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  Evil, Healthy, Individual

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• Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

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  Art, Mistake, Teaching

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

  William James

  Baby, Eye, Confusion

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.13.

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• A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

  William James

  Statistics, Enough, Hypothesis

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.462, Library of America

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• Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

  William James

  Dog, May, Affection

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• Man lives for science as well as bread.

  William James

  Science, Men, Bread

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

  William James

  Inspirational, Feelings, Path

  "The Principles of Psychology".

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• In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

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  Philosophical, Surfing, Mind

  "Psychology: The Briefer Course".

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• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

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  Truth, Real, Thinking

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.78, 谷月社

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• Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

  William James

  Pain, Mean, Energy

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

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  Educational, Ideas, Views

  "Writings, 1902-1910".

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• Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

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  Loss, College, Men

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Friendship, Sympathy, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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