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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

William James

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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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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Educational Men Philosophy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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