A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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