Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Truth happens to an idea
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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