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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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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Alive Cost Wall

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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