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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Philosophy Way
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States

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