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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

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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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