The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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