The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Author: William James

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate someone else's type of thinking.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.