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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

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Funny Habit

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