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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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