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Failing Quotes by William James
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
- There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
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