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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.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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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