Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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