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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance

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