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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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