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

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMES

Free Will Psychological
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Positive Wisdom Wise
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMES

Opposites Statement Truth
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMES

Democracy Genius People
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme

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