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

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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

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