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

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme

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