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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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