The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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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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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