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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

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  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

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  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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  Long, Challenges, Credit

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.97, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

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  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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• Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

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  Lazy, Weakness, Proud

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• The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

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  Desire, Gains, Wealth

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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  Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

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  Philosophy, Way, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

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  Needs, Appreciated, Humans

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• How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

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  Giving Up, Age, Aging

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

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  Want, Exception, Ifs

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• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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  Effort, World, Contribution

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• As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

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  Use, Facts, Belief

  "The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy". Book by William James, 1897.

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• If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

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  Doors, Miracle, Grace

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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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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  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Belief creates the actual fact.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Philosophical

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• We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

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  Powerful, Science, Data

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• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

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  Education, Philosophical, Carpe Diem

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• To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Quiet

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

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  Use, Half, Limits

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• With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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  Humiliation, No Failure

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.310, Courier Corporation

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

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  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

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  Men, Discovery, Mind

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• Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

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  Stay Positive, Feelings, Together

  "The Heart of William James".

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• A thing is important if anyone think it important.

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  Thinking, Important, Ifs

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.712, Courier Corporation

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