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

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
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
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 is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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