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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
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
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
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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