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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

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