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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

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