We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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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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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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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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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Truth happens to an idea
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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