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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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