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William James
1842-1910. American psychologist and philosopher, brother of novelist Henry James.
1. "To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
source: "The Letters of William James"
categories: Science and Technology -:- Various
2. "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
source: "Varieties of Religious Experience"
categories: Truth and Falsity
3. "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
categories: Life and Death
4. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
source: "Principles of Psychology"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
5. "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."
categories: God and Religion -:- Various
6. "Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
source: "Principles of Psychology"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
7. "Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Life and Death
8. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
categories: Life and Death
9. "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination
10. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
categories: Various
categories: Pain and Tears
12. "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
13. "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
source: "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
categories: Life and Death
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