Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESWe may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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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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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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