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William James

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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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