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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre

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