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.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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