With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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