On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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