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

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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

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