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

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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 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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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