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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES

Example Human Nature Proud
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical

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