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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inward Paradise Usual
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMES

People Talking Unhappiness
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Extensions Relation
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
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology

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