The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Just 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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