Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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