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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis 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
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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