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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way

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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