Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
More William James Quotes
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Truth happens to an idea
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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