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 JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
More William James Quotes
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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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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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