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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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