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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good

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