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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Beast Kind Men
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fears Form Great Life Things
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMES

Ideas Truth Verify
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Belief Really Rules
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision

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