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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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