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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Belief Facts
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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