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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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