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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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