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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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 ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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