Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESTo know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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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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