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• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  William James

  Truth, Views, Owing

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  William James

  Thinking, Numbers, Space

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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

  Birthday, Character, Age

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

  William James

  Fashion, Doors, Personality

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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

  Knowledge, Occupation, Life Is

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

  William James

  Differences

  "William James: The Essential Writings". Book by Bruce W. Wilshire, 1971.

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  William James

  God, Vision, Essentials

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

  William James

  Religious, Twilight, Mountain

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

  William James

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

  William James

  Memories, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

  William James

  Education, World, Consciousness

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.497, Booklassic

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• History is a bath of blood.

  William James

  Blood, History, Baths

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

  William James

  Work, Holiday, Men

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

  William James

  Inspirational, Educational, Philosophy

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

  William James

  Emotional, Feelings, Action

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• I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

  William James

  Life, Success, Attitude

  Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

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• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

  William James

  Passion, Math, Unions

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press

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• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  William James

  Eye, Waste, Flow

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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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

  Life, Faith, Optimism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

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  Views, Bird, Different

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

  William James

  Political, Branches, Reason

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• 'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

  William James

  Truth, Believe, Sound

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

  William James

  Principles, Appreciated, Human Nature

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