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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

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