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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
  — William James
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
  — William James
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
  — William James
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