The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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