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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMES

People Talking Unhappiness
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
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Believe Ideas Truth

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