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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

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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