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• Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

  William James

  Evil, Ruling, Prove

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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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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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

  William James

  Men

  Quoted in the Oxford Book of Marriage (1990).

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

  William James

  Attitude, Men

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

  William James

  Faith, Doubt, Abyss

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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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• Habit is the great flywheel of society.

  William James

  Habit

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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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• The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

  William James

  Race, Vagueness, Free Will

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

  William James

  Inspirational, Happiness

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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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• 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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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

  William James

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Half

  "Unsettling changes" by Mike Small, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Saving

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• There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

  William James

  Men, Finals, Lasts

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.208, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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