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

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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