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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Important Personality
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMES

Effort Exercise Life Love

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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