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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

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

Dream Play Science
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
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
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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