Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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History is a bath of blood.
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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.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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