True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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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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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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