A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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