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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.

  William James

  Life, Friendship, Littles

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

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• The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Inspire

  William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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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.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

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

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• If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Wish, Care, Enough

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Procrastination, Tasks

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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.

  William James

  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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• The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

  William James

  Men, Ideas, Twenties

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.272, Courier Corporation

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• For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

  William James

  Reality, Moments

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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

  William James

  Failure, Lows, Persons

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

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

  William James

  Attitude, Mean, Ugly

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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• So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

  William James

  Self, Feelings, World

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.310, Courier Corporation

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

  William James

  Memories, Thinking, Experience

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

  William James

  Optimistic, Acting, Way

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.424, Courier Corporation

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• The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

  William James

  Feet, Long, Devil

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

  William James

  Form, Great Things, Fears Of Life

  William James (1925). “The Philosophy of William James: Drawn from His Own Works”

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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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• Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

  William James

  Mind, May, Perceive

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

  William James

  Jealousy, Emotional, Guilt

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.185, Library of America

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• Events are influenced by our very great desires.

  William James

  Desire, Events

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• The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

  William James

  Psychology, Firsts, Lectures

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  William James

  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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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. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

  William James

  Strong, Real, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

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• A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

  William James

  Men, Self, Individual

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

  William James

  Art, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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