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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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