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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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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Happiness Laughter Men
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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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Belief Desire Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger

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