Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESThe total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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