Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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