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

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

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

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