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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

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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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