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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
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

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