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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

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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
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
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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