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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

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
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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