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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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