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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.

William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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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Culture Life Real
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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

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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