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William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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