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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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