Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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