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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMES

Demanded Everything Facts
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cash Experience Stream
The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMES

Better Strenuous Taste
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMES

Faith Hypothesis
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Mean Organization
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bells Tolls Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMES

Dog Littles Writing
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression

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