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William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
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
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.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching

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