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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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