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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

William James

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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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