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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

William James

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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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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Discovery Men Mind
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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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Finals Lasts Men
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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

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