The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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