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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

William James

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 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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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