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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
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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Political Volunteer War
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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

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