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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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