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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

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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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