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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

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