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William James

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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