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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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