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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

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