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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
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
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall

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