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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean 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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational

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