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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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