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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

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