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

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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

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