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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

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Chapters Egotism Religion

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