You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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