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

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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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