To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
More William James Quotes
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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