Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, 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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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