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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.

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  Memories, Thinking, Experience

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

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• All religions begin with the cry Help.

  William James

  Religion, Helping, Cry

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• Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

  William James

  Destiny, Men, Tree

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

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  Happiness, Sadness, Reality

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• We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

  William James

  Unique, Novelty, Embrace

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• To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

  William James

  Philosophy, Mind, Quiet

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• Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

  William James

  Men, Use, Small Parts

  William James (1918). “Selected Papers on Philosophy”

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• If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

  William James

  Appreciation, Winning, People

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  William James

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Sublime

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

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  Philosophy, Way, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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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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• When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.

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  People, Important, Importance

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• The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

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  Religious, Love Life, Development

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.507, Courier Corporation

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

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  Faith, Doubt, Abyss

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• Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

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  Science, Authority, Accounts

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

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• The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.

  William James

  Thinking, Way

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 6.

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• Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

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

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  Form, Great Things, Fears Of Life

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

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

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  Fate, Evil, Spinning

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

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  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

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  Life, Success, Character

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

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  Life, Success, Strong

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• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Book

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Individuality is founded in feeling

  William James

  Inspirational, Feelings, Individuality

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

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