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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMES

Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMES

Names Process Truth
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMES

Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMES

Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Lying Misunderstood Statistics
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit Principles Thinking
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES

Devil Feet Long
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Changing Men
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Peculiar Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happen Ideas Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical

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