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William James

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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Discovery Men Mind
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

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