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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

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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