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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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