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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

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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

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