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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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