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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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