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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

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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