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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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