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

William James

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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