The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESPhilosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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History is a bath of blood.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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