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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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.
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Alive Cost Wall
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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