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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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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Finals Lasts Men
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men

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