Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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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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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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 strenuous life tastes better
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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