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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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

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