All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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