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

William James

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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger

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