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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

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.
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Mean Reality Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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