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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMES

Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Believe Experience Lying
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES

Barriers Immutable Men
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Cost Wall
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Book Cat Conservations Dog

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