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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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