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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

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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