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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

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