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

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World

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