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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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