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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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