We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.William James
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
Regarding mutual tolerance It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off ....
William James
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