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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

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