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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

  William James

  Truth, Hypothesis

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

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• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Anxiety, Experts, Saint

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

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  Teacher, Art, Real

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

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• Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

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  Truth, Add, Facts

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.105, Lulu Press, Inc

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• ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

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  Earth, Reincarnation, Old Time

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

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  Truth, Ideas, Verify

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

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• I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

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  Philosophy, Order, Medicine

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• You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

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  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Interesting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

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  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

  William James

  Hate, Real, Thinking

  William James (1993). “The Selected Letters of William James”, Anchor

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• Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

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  Feelings, May, Determined

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.451, Library of America

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• It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

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  Reality, Psychology, Feelings

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

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  War, Long, Might

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.308, Routledge

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• When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

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  Reality, Men, Evil

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

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  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

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  Punishment, Political, Politics

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

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  Interesting, May, Becoming

  William James (2014). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.69, BookRix

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• At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Acceptance

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

  William James

  Mean, Issues, Doubt

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

  William James

  Men, Statistics, Claims

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.304, Library of America

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• The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

  William James

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.11, Nuvision Pubns

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

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  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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