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

William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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