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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

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