Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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