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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

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