Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESA 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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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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