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

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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