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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.

William James

The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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