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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth

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