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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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

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