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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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