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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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

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