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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self

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