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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

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