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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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