To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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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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