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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

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Men Parts Small Use
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES

Barriers Immutable Men

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

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