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There is but one unconditional commandment... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see  (William James Quotes) If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system  (William James Quotes) The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one  (William James Quotes) It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome  (William James Quotes) In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering  (William James Quotes) 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  (William James Quotes) The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals  (William James Quotes) There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self  (William James Quotes) There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse  (William James Quotes) Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!  (William James Quotes) Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude  (William James Quotes) 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 Quotes) The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity  (William James Quotes) I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)  (William James Quotes) From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology  (William James Quotes) 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 Quotes) So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast  (William James Quotes) Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices  (William James Quotes) Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom  (William James Quotes) The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet  (William James Quotes) The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party  (William James Quotes) Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher’s art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.  (William James Quotes) If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.  (William James Quotes) Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.  (William James Quotes) We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.  (William James Quotes) The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.  (William James Quotes) ...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.  (William James Quotes) To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.  (William James Quotes) ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.  (William James Quotes) Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain  (William James Quotes)
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