Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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