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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

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
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
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

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