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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Knowledge Science
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMES

Details Generalization Knowledge

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