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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth

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