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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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