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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

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