Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Real 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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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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