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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement 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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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

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