Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMESThe emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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