"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."
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"I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences."
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"Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain."
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves."
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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."
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"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance."
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"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
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"I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."
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"I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride."
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"From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."
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"Individuality is founded in feeling"
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"As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them."
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"Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad."
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling."
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"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
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