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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

William James

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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Belief Desire Truth
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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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Habit Principles Thinking
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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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Mean Reality Truth
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

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