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• Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

  William James

  Philosophical, Matter, Cases

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.99, University of Illinois Press

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• A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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  Men, Self, Individual

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

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• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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  Effort, World, Contribution

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• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

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  Believe, Men, Needs

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• All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

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  Habit, Form, Mass

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.56, Nuvision Pubns

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• The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

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  Truth, Mean, Inspire

  William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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  Reality, Moments

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

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  Evil, Worry, Add

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

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  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

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

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• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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  Faith, Believe, Philosophical

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• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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• The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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  Feet, Long, Devil

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

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  Mind, May, Perceive

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Procrastination, Tasks

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

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  Companionship, Affinity, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

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  Splits, May, Consciousness

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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  Lonely, Agony, Individual

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

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  Experience, Cash, Streams

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

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• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

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• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

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  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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• We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

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  Inspirational, Happiness

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

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  Uprising, Agents, Wheels

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

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  Struggle, Inspire, Triumph

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

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  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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