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

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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