The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESThe instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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