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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

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