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.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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