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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

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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