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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
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
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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