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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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 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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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