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

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
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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Health Love Wings
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making

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

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