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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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