Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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