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.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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 aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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