Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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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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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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