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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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

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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