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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

Creativity Mean Science
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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