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

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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