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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth

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