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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

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 is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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