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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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