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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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