Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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 strenuous life tastes better
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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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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