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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

William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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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Political Volunteer War
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way

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