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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Men Needs
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Ideas Men Twenties
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMES

Individual Men Self
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Moving Subconscious World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inward Paradise Usual

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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