There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESOur 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.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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