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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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