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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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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Opposites Statement Truth
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

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