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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 faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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

Finals Lasts Men
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything 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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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