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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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