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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.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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

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