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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

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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

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