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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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