Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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