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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

William James

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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