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

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
[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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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

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