The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMESOwing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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