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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War

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