The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Truth happens to an idea
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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