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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

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