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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

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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 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

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