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

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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