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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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