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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William James

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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