The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
More William James Quotes
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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New habits can be launched.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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