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

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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 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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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