The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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