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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods

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