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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

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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.
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Art Men Philosophy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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