The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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