The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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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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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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