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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War

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