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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

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