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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

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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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