We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.William James
Religion ... shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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Algebra is a form of low cunning.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
William James
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