The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
WILLIAM JAMESA man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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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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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Truth happens to an idea
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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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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