Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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