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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable 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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Culture Life Real
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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