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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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