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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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.
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Beast Kind Men
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth

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