There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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