Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESOrganization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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