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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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