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William James

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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.
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Finals Lasts Men
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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