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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind

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