If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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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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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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