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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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 intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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