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William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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