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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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