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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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