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William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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