Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESOur 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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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