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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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