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

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
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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