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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMES

Humorous Life Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use

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