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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground

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