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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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