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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.

William James

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMES

Natural Political Politics
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Flux Names Reflection
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES

Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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

Dream Play Science
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Prove Ruling
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real

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