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.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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