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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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

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