Truth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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
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