The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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