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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William James

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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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