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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

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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Mind Peculiar Self
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth

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