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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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