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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

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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

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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