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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.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky

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