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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Parts Small Use
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMES

Expectations Long Zest
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Contradiction Happiness Natural
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Ideas Men Twenties
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Funny Habit

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