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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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