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Truth happens to an idea

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World

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