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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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