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.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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