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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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