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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of…
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:…
— Gene Roddenberry
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William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so…
— Howard Mumford Jones
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. --William James
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. --William James
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. --William James
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Belief creates the actual fact. --William James
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Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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