Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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