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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

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