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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance

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