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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega

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