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William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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