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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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