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

William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

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

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