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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

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