"We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...""
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"There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing"
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"No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends."
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"Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual."
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"But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine."
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"We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude."
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"The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power."
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"Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce."
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"Choose a self and stand by it."
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"No decision is, in itself, a decision."
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"The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's."
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"The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption."
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"Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse"
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"The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes."
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"Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least."
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"'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it."
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"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries"
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"Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back."
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"That which is most personal, is most interesting."
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