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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

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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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Alive Cost Wall
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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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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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