Science, 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.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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