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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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