The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Truth happens to an idea
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