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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest

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