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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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 with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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