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William James

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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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