Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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