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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

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