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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

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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