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

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Civilization Class Fear
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciate Desire Friendship
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Contradiction Happiness Natural
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Responsibility Stronger
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deny Neglect Wise
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Men Tree
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Mean Organization
All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cry Helping Religion

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