The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
More William James Quotes
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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