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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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