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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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