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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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

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