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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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