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

William James

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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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