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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
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