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

William James

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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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Culture Life Real
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress

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