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

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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

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