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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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