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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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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