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Truth happens to an idea

William James

Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
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Belief Desire Truth
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy

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