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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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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Political Volunteer War
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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