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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.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES

Barriers Immutable Men
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMES

Discovery Important Positive
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas 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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Gone Instant
History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bath Blood History

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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