What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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