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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

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