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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

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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Becoming Gone Instant
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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

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