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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit

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