The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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New habits can be launched.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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