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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?

William James

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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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Mind Peculiar Self
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

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