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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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