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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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