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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

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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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