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

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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