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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

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

Free Race Vagueness Will
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School

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