William James

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• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

  The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

  • Faith
  • Life & Death

• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

  Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), Ch. 11—Clifford’s Lectures and Essays (1879)

  • Poetry
  • Science

• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

  • Faith
  • Risk

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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