To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMESScience, 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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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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