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Für viele ist Gott kaum mehr als eine Berufungsinstanz gegen das Verdammungsurteil der Welt über ihr eigenes Versagen.
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Philosoph, Psychologe (USA, 1842 - 1910).
William James · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
William James wäre heute 182 Jahre, 8 Monate, 19 Tage oder 66.737 Tage alt.
Geboren am 11.01.1842 in New York
Gestorben am 26.08.1910 in Chocorua/New Hampshire
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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In the practical as in the theoretic life, the man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.
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Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
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Much of what we call "evil" could be transformed into something invigoratingly and encouragingly good.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
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Pessimism is essentially a religious disease.
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Pessimism leads to weakness; optimism to power.
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Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains-under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The art of wisdom consists in knowing what we must overlook.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.