Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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