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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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