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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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