Our 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.
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 teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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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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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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