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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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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Finals Lasts Men
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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

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