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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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