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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.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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.
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Discovery Men Mind
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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