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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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.
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All Fields Instant Time
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMES

Block Data Mind
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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