Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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New habits can be launched.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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