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Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain
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Everyone wants to feel appreciated. William James said it. People crave recognition. Start giving appreciation today. Watch relationships transform. 💙✨
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William James on the Psychology of Habit
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/16/william-james-on-habit/
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The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
-- William James⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamJames #Attitude #Life
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
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A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
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A quotation from William James
“Peace” in military mouths today is a synonym for “war expected.” The word has become a pure provocative, and no government wishing peace sincerely should allow it ever to be printed in a newspaper. Every up-to-date dictionary should say that “peace” and “war” mean the same thing, now in posse, now in actu. It may even reasonably be said that the intensely sharp preparation for war by the nations is the real war, permanent, unceasing; and that the battles are only a sort of public verification of the mastery gained during the “peace”-interval.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79340/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #WilliamJames #armaments #buildup #military #militaryindustrialcomplex #munitions #peace #preparation #war #defense
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A quotation from William James
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. Showing war’s irrationality and horror is of no effect upon him. The horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis; war-taxes are the only ones men never hesitate to pay; as the budgets of all nations show us.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/78820/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #humannature #militarism #violence #war
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A quotation from William James
History is a bath of blood.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/19710/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #blood #history #killing #violence
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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⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamJames #God #Science
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-- William James -
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
-- William James -
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamJames #Wisdom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose on thought over another.
— William James
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
— William James
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Pragmatic Truth • 3.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/12/pragmatic-truth-3/Truth Predicates —
One of the first questions to be asked in this setting concerns the relationship between the significant performance and its reflective critique. If one expresses oneself in a particular fashion, and someone says “that’s true”, is there anything useful at all to be said in general terms about the relationship between those two acts? For instance, does the critique add value to the expression criticized, does it say something significant in its own right, or is it but an insubstantial echo of the original sign?
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Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/Pragmatic Maxim
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-a/Truth Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Truth_theoryPragmatic Theory Of Truth • Document History
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth#Document_historyCorrespondence Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Correspondence_Theory_Of_Truth#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Truth #PragmaticTruth #TruthTheory #Semiotics #Meaning
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Pragmatic Truth • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/10/pragmatic-truth-2/Truth as the Good of Logic —
Pragmatic theories of truth enter on a stage set by the philosophies of former ages, with special reference to the Ancient Greeks, the Scholastics, and Immanuel Kant. Recalling a few elements of that background can provide valuable insight into the play of ideas as they have developed up through our time. Because pragmatic ideas about truth are often confused with a number of quite distinct notions it is useful say a few words about those other theories and to highlight the points of significant contrast.
In one classical formulation, truth is defined as the good of logic, where logic is classed as a normative science, in other words, an inquiry into a good or value which seeks to arrive at knowledge of it and the means to achieve it. In that view, truth cannot be discussed to much effect outside the context of inquiry, knowledge, and logic, all very broadly conceived.
Resources —
Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/Pragmatic Maxim
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-a/Truth Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Truth_theoryPragmatic Theory Of Truth • Document History
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth#Document_historyCorrespondence Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Correspondence_Theory_Of_Truth#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Truth #PragmaticTruth #TruthTheory #Semiotics #Meaning
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Entire vital function
So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes. Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe; not a service, not a sally of generosity, not a scientific exploration or experiment or textbook, that may not be a mistake. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
~ William Jamesslip:4a1102.
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