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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.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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.
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Discovery Men Mind
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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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