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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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 quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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