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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

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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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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