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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

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Mean Organization

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