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• There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

  William James

  Real, Voice, Self Love

  Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

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  Past, Self, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

  William James

  Cash, Disease, Interpretation

  Letter to H. G. Wells, 11 Sept. 1906

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

  William James

  Happiness, Sadness, Reality

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• If it works, it's true.

  William James

  Working It, Ifs

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• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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  Trying, Gone, Becoming

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

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  Companionship, Affinity, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

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  Appreciation, Creativity, Desire

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• Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

  William James

  Dog, Writing, Littles

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• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Ideas

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

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• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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  Life, Trust, Truth

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• All religions begin with the cry Help.

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  Religion, Helping, Cry

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• Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

  William James

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• Truth is something that happens to an idea.

  William James

  Ideas, Truth Is, Happens

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• Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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  Men, Use, Small Parts

  William James (1918). “Selected Papers on Philosophy”

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• Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

  William James

  Life And Love, Exercise, Effort

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

  William James

  Men, Genius, Capacity

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• No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

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  Failure, Lows, Persons

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

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  Memories, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.96, Nuvision Pubns

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

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  Life, Friendship, Littles

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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  Intuition, Doe, Logic

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

  William James

  Details, Generalization

  Arthur Kendall Getman, John Dewey, William James, Werrett Wallace Charters, Ralph M. Stewart (1937*). “Contributions of Ten Leading Americans to Education”

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