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

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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