Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources . . . Stating the thing broadly, the human individual lives far within his limits.
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Author
William James
American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.