Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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 union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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