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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness

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