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.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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