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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

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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