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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

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Parts Small Use
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMES

Ideas Truth Verify
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

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