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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMES

Choices Differences Men Savage
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

All Fields Instant Time
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMES

Demanded Everything Facts

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

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