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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

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
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
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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

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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