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.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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