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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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