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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

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