The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMESMost men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The 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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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