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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
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 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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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