Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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History is a bath of blood.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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