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

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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

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