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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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 deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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