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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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