The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Truth happens to an idea
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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