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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
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 man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth

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