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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMES

Determine Feelings May
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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