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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

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
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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