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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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

Dream Play Science
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Small Rooms Thinking
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Peculiar Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way

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