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William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
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
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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