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William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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