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William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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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Pay Quality Supreme
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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