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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Belief Really Rules
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Prove Ruling
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMES

Flux Names Reflection
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mean Men Solitude
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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