Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESNew habits can be launched.
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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.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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