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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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.
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Mean Reality Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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