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William James Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/William_James_b1842c.jpg/220px-William_James_b1842c.jpg)
A pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a medical doctor. William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.
Here are some famous quotes by William James.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
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It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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If you want a quality act as if you already had it.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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This life is worth living we can say since it is what we make it.
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If you care enough for a result you will most certainly attain it.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
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Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
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Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse.
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Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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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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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
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Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
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So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
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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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An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
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The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
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Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says 'This is the real me ' and when you have found that attitude follow it.
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So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function no moral equivalent of war analogous as one might say to the mechanical equivalent of hate so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.
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As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently we must be willing to change our belief system let the past slip away expand our sense of now and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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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.
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.