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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

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