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

William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
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, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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 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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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

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