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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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