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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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