When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
More William James Quotes
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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