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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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance

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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