We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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