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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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