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

  William James

  Appreciation, Creativity, Desire

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

  William James

  Life, Stay Strong, Ties

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Wise, Art, Reading

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.22.

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• It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  William James

  Believe, Philosophical, Government

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

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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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• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  William James

  Life, Humorous, Philosophical

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James

  Men, Differences, Choices

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

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• With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

  William James

  Humiliation, No Failure

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

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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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• Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

  William James

  Truth Is

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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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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

  William James

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Half

  "Unsettling changes" by Mike Small, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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• There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

  William James

  Want, Exception, Ifs

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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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• Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

  William James

  Stay Positive, Feelings, Together

  "The Heart of William James".

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• Truth is something that happens to an idea.

  William James

  Ideas, Truth Is, Happens

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• Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

  William James

  Life, Religious, Courage

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

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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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• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

  William James

  Intuition, Doe, Logic

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• A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

  William James

  Responsibility, Men, Stronger

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

  William James

  Lying, Believe, Belief

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 3 (1907)

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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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