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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mountain Religious Twilight
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMES

Opposites Statement Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMES

Democracy Genius People
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Able Accompanying Thinking
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES

Intellectual Men Order
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision

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