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

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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