Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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