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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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