The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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