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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

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
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

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