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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy

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