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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

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  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

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  Happiness, Sadness, Reality

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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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• The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

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  Appreciation, Creativity, Desire

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• Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Tree

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• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

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  Past, Self, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

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  Companionship, Affinity, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

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  Race, Vagueness, Free Will

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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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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• The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

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  Cash, Disease, Interpretation

  Letter to H. G. Wells, 11 Sept. 1906

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• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Ideas

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

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• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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  Life, Trust, Truth

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• All religions begin with the cry Help.

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  Religion, Helping, Cry

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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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• 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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• Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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  Ideas, Truth Is, Happens

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• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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  Trying, Gone, Becoming

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

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• Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

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  Dog, Writing, Littles

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• Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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  Life And Love, Exercise, Effort

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

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  Men, Genius, Capacity

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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  Intuition, Doe, Logic

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• If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

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  Appreciation, Winning, People

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• The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

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  Truth, Mean, Inspire

  William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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