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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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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Belief Desire Truth

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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