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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 intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES

Intellectual Men Order
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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.
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Law Science Together
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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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