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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.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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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