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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

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 ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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