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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

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