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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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