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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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