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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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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