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

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World

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

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