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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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