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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
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 is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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