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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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