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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

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