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

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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

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