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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall

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