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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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