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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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