The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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