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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social

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