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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly

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