A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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