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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth

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