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

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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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Example Human Nature Proud
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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