The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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