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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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