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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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