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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.