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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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
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

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

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

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