The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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