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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

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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

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