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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

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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

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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