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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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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Example Human Nature Proud
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
[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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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