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.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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