The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, 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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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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