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“We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.”

Quote by William James

Book:The Principles of Psychology

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The Principles of Psychology

Written by William James, this comprehensive work delves into the nature of the mind, consciousness, and the workings of the human psyche. It is considered a cornerstone in the development of modern psychology and offers insights into the scientific study of human behavior. more

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William James, born on January 11, 1842, and died on August 26, 1910, was an influential American philosopher, psychologist, and writer. He is considered one of the founders of functionalism in psychology and has had a profound impact on the fields of psychology, philosophy, and religion. more

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Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.”

Long Expectations Zest Postman

Author:William James

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

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Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.”

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“Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.”

Faith Hypothesis

Book:The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality

Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality

“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”

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Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.”

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Book:Pragmatism

Source: Pragmatism

“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”

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Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.”

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Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.”

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Book:Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth