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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

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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