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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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

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