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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

William James

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
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
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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

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