Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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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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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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