Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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.
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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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