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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

William James

Faith, Example, May

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.

William James

Nature, Science, Flames

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

William James

Reality, Men, Hands

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.

William James

Science, Order, Two

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There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

William James

Life, Spiritual, Night

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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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New habits can be launched.

William James

Habit, New Habits

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.65, Nuvision Pubns

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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

Giving Up, Blessed, Deception

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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Men, Order, Intellectual

William James (1911). “Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy”, p.51, U of Nebraska Press

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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

William James

Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

Self, Mind, Peculiar

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

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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

William James

Believe, Community, Belief

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

William James

Sorry, Apology, May

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

William James

Vanity, Religion, Would Be

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.41, Library of America

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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

William James

Thinking, Pluralism, Form

William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

William James

Lonely, Admiration, Feds

William James (2012). “Memories and Studies”, p.178, The Floating Press

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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

Thinking, Doe, Able

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.134, Routledge

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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

William James

Educational, Philosophy, Emotional

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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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

Truth, Guides, Sensible

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

William James

Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

William James

Truth, Reality, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

William James

Mean, Men, Absence

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Love, Life, Gratitude

"How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

William James

Ideas, Relation, Being True

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

William James

Reality, Frustration, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Born: January 11, 1842
Died: August 26, 1910
Occupation: Philosopher
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