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Truth happens to an idea

William James

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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making

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