The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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