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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
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
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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