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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

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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