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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

William James

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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

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