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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World

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