Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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