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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

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Changing Men
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

Intellectual Men Order
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES

Grace Order Unseen
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMES

Block Data Mind
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Memories Philosophy
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Community Friendship Sympathy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cry Helping Religion
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Congratulations Self Esteem Success
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMES

Feelings Self World
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance

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