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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process

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