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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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