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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES

Barriers Immutable Men
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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