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

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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