A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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