We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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