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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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