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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

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