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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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 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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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