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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

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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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