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

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive 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

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