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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

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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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