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

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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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