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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

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