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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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