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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School

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