History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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