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.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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History is a bath of blood.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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