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William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

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