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

William James

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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

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

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