That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESEarnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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