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William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion

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