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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

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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