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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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 total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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