True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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