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William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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