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

William James

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

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