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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success.

letter to H. G. Wells, 11 September 1906

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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep” by force of inertia.
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