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

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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

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

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