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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mountain Religious Twilight
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciate Desire Friendship
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMES

Ethics Philosophical Quality
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMES

Based Inspirational Life Test
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES

Owing Truth Views
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Everything Insightful Making
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Gone Instant
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMES

Interesting Most Personal
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Positive Success

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