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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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 union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

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