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William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bells Tolls Truth
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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