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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
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Believe Ideas Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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