A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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