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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  William James

  Happiness, Attitude, Mean

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

  William James

  Love, Islands, Sea

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

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• Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

  William James

  Attitude, Men

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• There's nothing so absurd
  that if you repeat it often enough,
  people will believe it.

  William James

  Believe, People, Propaganda

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• It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  William James

  Believe, Philosophical, Government

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

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• As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Wise, Art, Reading

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.22.

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• Effort is a measure of a Man.

  William James

  Sports, Hockey, Men

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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

  William James

  Attitude, Alive, Authenticity

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• Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

  William James

  Two, Reason, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

  William James

  Order, White, Black

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  William James

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

  William James

  Drinking, Bed, Rising

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

  William James

  Struggle, Inspire, Triumph

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

  William James

  Faith, Doubt, Abyss

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• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  William James

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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• I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

  William James

  Lying, Believe, Belief

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 3 (1907)

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• Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

  William James

  Men

  Quoted in the Oxford Book of Marriage (1990).

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• The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

  William James

  Life, Success, Character

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

  William James

  Life, Stay Strong, Ties

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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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 to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Saving

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• A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

  William James

  Responsibility, Men, Stronger

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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