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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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