History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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