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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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.
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Finals Lasts Men
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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