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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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