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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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 deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
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

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