We do not know what we may be able to do until we try, and we can never be certain beforehand that an experience is worth having until we have had it.
The true nature of things is in their particulars, not in generalities; we know a thing by knowing its individual characteristics, not by subsumming it under a class.
Every external fact to which you are indifferent is irrelevant to you, save in so far as it may be a sign of fact to which you are not indifferent. Only the facts to which you react emotionally have any intrinsic interest for you either of the practical or the theoretic sort.
The true nature of things is in their particulars, not in generalities; we know the world through its infinite variations, not through abstract rules that pretend to govern them.
The mind itself is the seat of action. We do not act because we think, but we think because the possibility of action is always before us.
The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and ask for explanations of certain kinds of congruity in those phenomena. Order is the one thing we cannot do without.
The task of life is not so much to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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