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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

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
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
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men 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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
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 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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

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