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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

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