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 JAMESTrue ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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