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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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