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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES

Affection Alpha Omega

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