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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
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Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
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Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.
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We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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