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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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