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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Learning Philosophical Wisdom
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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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Discovery Men Mind
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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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Becoming Gone Instant
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue

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