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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fears Form Great Life Things
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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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Beast Kind Men
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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