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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES

Devil Feet Long
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Beast Kind Men
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Heroism Reality Theatre
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Dream Inspirational
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

All Fields Instant Time
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Demanded Everything Facts
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciate Desire Friendship
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combat Stress Weapons
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMES

Names Process Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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