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William James

There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMES

Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES

Owing Truth Views

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