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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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