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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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

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