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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way

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