Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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