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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

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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

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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