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Quote by Roger Joseph Boscovich

“Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.”

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Roger Joseph Boscovich was a prominent physicist, born on May 18, 1711, and died on February 13, 1787. He made significant contributions to the field of physics, particularly in optics and mechanics. more

“I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.”

“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.”

Thinking Life Persons Life Is Belief Grows Interesting Youth Most Interesting Fallacy

Author:William Lyon Phelps

“Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.”

Life Humans Real Culture Core Live By Admiration Dislike Mislead Disdain Wrapping

Author:William James

“What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.”

Life Religion Evil Energy Religious Courage Capacity Endurance Religious Faith

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.”

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Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.”

Way Life Humans Looks May Satisfied Human Life Succession

Book:The Complete Works of William Hazlitt

Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt

“So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.”

Thinking Life Writing Book Play Wanted Reading One Thing Hearing Reading Books Make Me Happy

Author:William Hazlitt

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