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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

Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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