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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views

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