All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth, 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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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