William James
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“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.” -William James
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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” -William James
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“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.” -William James
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“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” -William James
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” -William James
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“Man lives for science as well as bread.” -William James
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“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.” -William James
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“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” -William James
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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
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“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” -William James
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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
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“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” -William James
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” -William James
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“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” -William James
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“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” -William James
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“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” -William James
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“Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” -William James
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” -William James
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” -William James
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” -William James
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“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” -William James
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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” -William James
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” -William James
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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” -William James
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“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.” -William James
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“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.” -William James
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“‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.” -William James
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“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.” -William James
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“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.” -William James
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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” -William James
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“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.” -William James
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“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.” -William James
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” -William James
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James
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