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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES

Owing Truth Views
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Cases Matter Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMES

Free Race Vagueness Will
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Emotional Feelings
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMES

Choices Differences Men Savage
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 a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self

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