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

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching

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

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