Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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History is a bath of blood.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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