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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

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