There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth, 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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The strenuous life tastes better
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Truth happens to an idea
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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