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

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

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

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